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"AMLO out!" - not all Mexicans thrilled with popular president

1 July 2019
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2019-07-01 11:54

Protesters marched through main arteries of Mexico City on Sunday to demand the resignation of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. With the imposing Monument to the Revolution in the background, protesters marched and chanted. Lopez Obrador took office in December after defeating the centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which had held power for most of the past nine decades. 

A former Mexico City mayor who had run twice before for the presidency, Lopez Obrador won the election by a landslide in July pledging to stamp out corruption, reduce violence, tackle inequality and boost the economy. Some of his early decisions sowed doubts, however, among supporters and opponents alike, including canceling a partially built, new 13 billion dollars Mexico City airport.

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